Discourse Pragmatics and Prosodic Reconstruction

A New Approach to Prosodic Structure in Herodotus' Histories and Beyond

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The aim of this book is to establish prosodic reconstruction – especially of higher prosodic units such as the intonational or prosodic phrase – as a new subfield of historical-comparative linguistics. Incidentally, it develops a new model for capturing the …

Zazaki

Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie

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Zazaki ist eine am nordwestlichen Rand des kurdischen Sprachgebiets gesprochene nordwestiranische Sprache, die heute von ca. 2 Millionen Sprechern in Südostanatolien als Muttersprache verwendet wird. Es ist eine dem Kurdischen verwandte, aber dennoch eigenständige Sprache. Seit der Eskalation des Konfliktes …

Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism

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Ever since Ossetic was extensively researched by eminent Iranists like Abaev, Bailey, Gershevitch and Benveniste, the language has earned a prominent place in (Indo-)Iranian and Indo-European Linguistics. Dealing with phonology together with etymological and morphological considerations, this study is the …